Native oyster species were once vital ecosystem engineers, but their populations have
collapsed worldwide because of overfishing and habitat destruction. In 2004, we initiated a vast (…

… MD; Wernovsky, Gil MD; Burke, Redmond P. MD; Wessel, David L. MD … Burke), The
Children's Hospital, and the Departments of Pediatrics and Surgery, Harvard Medical School …

Objectives: In a randomized, single-center trial, we compared perioperative outcomes in
infants undergoing cardiac operations after use of the alpha-stat versus pH-stat strategy during …

Objectives. The purpose of this study is to determine the early and late results of the surgical
repair of atrial septal defect in adults. Background. Progressively limiting, untreated atrial …

The extant nomenclature for ventricular septal defect (VSD) is reviewed for the purpose of
establishing a unified reporting system. The subject was debated and reviewed by members of …

Objective To determine the eventual outcome of children with heart disease who had
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a specialized pediatric cardiac intensive care unit …

The extant nomenclature for aortopulmonary window (AP window) and pulmonary artery
origin from ascending aorta (hemitruncus) is reviewed for the purpose of establishing a unified …

Because the arterial switch operation has become the routine surgical approach for
transposition of the great arteries, there is increasing awareness of adverse sequelae in some …

The extant nomenclature for atrioventricular (AV) canal/atrioventricular septal defect is reviewed
for the purpose of establishing a unified reporting system. The subject was debated and …

Abdominal segmentation on clinically acquired computed tomography (CT) has been a
challenging problem given the inter-subject variance of human abdomens and complex 3-D …